“It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.”

“Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

“He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.”

“Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.”

“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. ”

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”